Tom Ferebee - Bombardier

Tom was bombardier for the top secret 509th Composite Group during World War II, Thomas Wilson Ferebee was one of the very last people to see the atomic bomb before it was dropped over Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.

Tom - originally from North Carolina - planned to become a professional baseball player but his life took a different turn during WWII. He became a bombardier on one of the most advanced aircraft in the world at the time - the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Read the letter he wrote to his nephew 3 weeks before dropping the the first atomic bomb.